MICROSOFT OFFICE POWER POINT

Microsoft PowerPoint or Microsoft Office PowerPoint is a computer program for the presentation that was developed by Microsoft at their office in the application package, Microsoft Office, other than Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and several other programs. PowerPoint running on a PC-based computer operating system Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating system Apple Mac OS, although at first these applications running on Xenix operating system. PowerPoint is widely used, mainly by offices and business people, educators, students, and trainers. Starting with the Microsoft Office System 2003, Microsoft changed the name from the previous program into Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Office PowerPoint. The latest version of PowerPoint is version 12 (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007), incorporated into the Microsoft Office System 2007 package.

History

Microsoft PowerPoint application was first developed by Bob and Dennis Austin Titans as a presenter for a company called Forethought, Inc., which later was renamed PowerPoint.

In 1987, PowerPoint version 1.0 was released, and supports the Apple Macintosh computer. PowerPoint and then still use the black / white which can make text and graphics pages for overhead transparency projector (OHP). A year later, a new version of PowerPoint comes with color support, after the color Macintosh came to market.

Microsoft acquired previously thought, Inc and of course PowerPoint software at a price of about 14 million dollars July 31, 1987. In 1990, Microsoft Windows version of PowerPoint (version 2.0) come into the market, Microsoft Windows 3.0 trace. Since 1990, PowerPoint had become an integral part of the standard office package Microsoft Office System applications (except Basic Edition).

The latest version is Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 (PowerPoint 12), which was released in November 2006, a jump that far enough in terms of user interface and improved graphics capabilities. In addition, compared with the previous data format is binary data with the extension *. ppt, this version offers an XML data format with the extension *. pptx.

Operation

In PowerPoint, just like any other presentation software processing, text objects, graphics, video, sound, and other objects are positioned in several individual pages called "slide". PowerPoint slideshow in this term has the same analogy with a slide projector usual, which has been outdated, because the emergence of computer software that can process the kind of PowerPoint and Impress presentations. Each slide can be printed or displayed on screen and can navigate through the order of the presenters. Slides can also form the basis of the webcast (a broadcast on the World Wide Web).

PowerPoint offers two types of movement properties, namely the Custom Animations and Slide Transitions. Property Movement Entrance, Emphasis and Exit objects in the slide can be set by the Custom Animation, while Transition regulate the movement from one slide to another. Everything can be dianimaskan in many ways. Overall design of a presentation can be arranged with menggunakaan Master Slide, and the overall structure of prsentasi may be edited using Primitive outline (Outline).

PowerPoint can save presentations in several formats ie following:

• *.PPT (PowerPoint Presentation), which is the binary data and is available in all versions of PowerPoint (including PowerPoint 12).
• *.PPS (PowerPoint Show), yang merupakan data biner dan tersedia dalam semua versi PowerPoint (termasuk PowerPoint 12).
• *.POT (PowerPoint Template), yang merupakan data biner dan tersedia dalam semua versi PowerPoint (termasuk PowerPoint 12).
• *.PPTX (PowerPoint Presentation), yang yang merupakan data dalam bentuk XML dan hanya tersedia dalam PowerPoint 12.